Theme: Connecting the Dots

When people hear about us, they wonder, what is it that we do, and what impact do we have on our community. In the most abstract sense, what we basically do is spread ideas that are worthwhile.

TEDxAASTMT, The Arab Academy based TEDx entity, believes that the thing about ideas is that they are the only true sustainable thing in our world. They don’t burn, collapse or even fade away. They are eternal. Ideas change lives and widen perspectives.

We like to think of our world as some kind of a big puzzle, more like a dot diagram. Each idea or each dot alone doesn’t really hold any meaning. But when you spread these ideas and connect these dots, you will find yourself in front of something extraordinary. This is what we do here at TEDxAASTMT, we help in spreading ideas that are worthwhile. We connect the dots.

The belief in the importance of the past and its effect in determining our future is the essence of this year’s theme; our aim is to present diverse ideas that would inspire the audience with thought provoking talks that could link our past, present and future. Also, the world we live in today is a structure of intersecting fields and cultures. The attending audience will be presented with new emerging technologies, enriching new experiences and past lessons that every age of the audience could relate to and aspire to learn and discover. In our event you will witness the dots coming together and connected to represent the different aspects of life that forms the pillars of the new age from technology to history to lifestyle and humanities.

Alexandria center of arts
1 El-Horeya Rd, Al Attarin Sharq, Qesm Al Attarin, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt
Alexandria, Al Iskandarīyah, Alexandria Center Of
Egypt

Ahmed Kilany

Ahmed Kilany is a 24 year old chemical engineering student. He was a volunteer in many projects such as MindUtopia and ATOM. He is also the founder of “Share the science” project which aims to improve the experiences of the poor class students by helding weekly sessions in different fields and for different ages.His goal is to connect these students with the actual world and open their eyes towards many things they won’t know them in their study life and encourage them to the volunteering work. Ahmed suffered in his life as he worked as a security guard and faced inequality and casteism. The death of his mother and grandmother when he was seventeen was his big challenge, as he changed his life and became an engineering student after he wasn’t interested in education.

Ahmed Osman

Ahmed Osman is a talented architect, novelist, and the director of 'Rêny' for architecture and designing in Cairo and Paris. Osman fought many experiences alongside his work, most notably in television as an Assistant Director, after that he began to write scripts, and wrote the screenplay of ' تؤام الحرب و السلام ', currently being considered for execution In June 2016, he began writing his first novel ' لمسة مليكة ' published in September2016 through 'Ebdaa' for publishing and distribution. It is worth mentioning, that in less than a month after the release of the novel, the first and second editions were carried out entirely from the libraries. Reflecting the author's success in attracting the attention of readers, osman is currently writing his new novel ' elhabis '

Aya El-Dighady

Aya El-Dighady is the R&D manager of Smart Careers, and a formal career counselor at UNICEF Egypt. Thanks to her substantial expertise in career counselling, Aya has contributed to grasping her community's attention to the paramount realm of self awareness.

Dina Al Borgui

Graduated from faculty of fine arts in 2005. She worked with French archaeologists who searched for monuments in Alexandria. Also she worked in Bibliotheca Alexandria and the French cultural center. Until she decided to make studies in psychology to consolidate the influence of art and its positive effect on humans psychologically and organically. She works in Art therapy and now she makes individual consulting sessions and treatments.

Mohamed El-Gzayerly

Mohamed El-Gzayerly is a twenty-year old English major at the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University. Mohamed went through a physical and psychological journey that had resulted in an insightful perception. He noted down his journey in numerous articles. Interestingly enough, he has a story to tell.

Mohamed Mesbah

A holder of MBA (HR), Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Resource, Mesbah is the Head of Human Resources in American President Lines and previously worked for CMA CGM, ACE life Insurance, P&O Nedlloyd (Maersk) and Premier Recruitment. He conducted more than 70 Live TV interviews with more than 6 international Channels such as BBC and Dubai channel and spoke in more than 45 Global organization in 4 continents.TEDx and SHRM Speaker, trained more than 24000 professionals during the last 16 years.

Ramy Khorshed

Ramy is Program Director for SPARK Ventures, an organization dedicated to empowering young leaders to turn their ideas and passions into high-impact startups, projects or social ventures. Ramy's experience includes co-founding KBI Ventures, an innovative real estate investment company that allows shared ownership that raised over a million dollars in its first year. He is also an active investor and adviser to startups that have become role models to many entrepreneurs in Egypt such as Simplex Arabia. Currently at Future Energy Corporation, Ramy leads international marketing campaigns and the firm's initiative to transform Egypt into a regional energy hub. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelors in Economics and a certificate in Information Science & Information Studies.

Rana Reda

Rana is an expert in the financial field . She uses her knowledge as an asset in her one-to-one counselling sessions to provide clients with financial literacy . She has responsibility towards education in Egypt as she designs programs for Career Development, Financial literacy and Entrepreneurship for kids and teens in schools as a form of informal education to raise their awareness and empower them .

Soha Abu Gharara

Soha works as a coordinator in the Cultural Outreach sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina since 2014. She lived most of her years in Abu Dhabi, UAE, gained her high school degree from there and then continued her higher education in Alexandria, Egypt at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport where she attained her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration - majoring Marketing. Soha is a loyal member of the Youth Rotary Club- Rotaract - where she held responsible positions of leadership and pursued her love for social work. She is currently working in a new cultural project by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and an active member of Rotaract Alexandria Cosmopolitan.